Setting out board



Jul'le 1931. w. c. JOHNSON 8306 SETTING-OUT BOARD Filed Sept. 15, 1928 INDENTOR.

ATTORNEUD Patented June 2, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WILLIAM o. :ronnson, 0F MILwAuxEnwIscoNsIN, ASSIGNOR TO MACHINERY DE- VELOPMENT COMPANY, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, A CORPORATION or wrs- CONSIN SETTING OUT BOARD Application filed September 15, 1928. Serial No. 306,247.

The invention relates to setting-out boards for use in setting out leather, more particularly where the hide is allowed to dry in set- .outcondition on the board.

Heretofore setting-out boards have been 'made of cardboard or fibre board. Such boards warp and buckle and cannot be readily used where the setting-out process is accomplished by machinery and do not stand up under the rough usage to which devices of this kind are subjected. To obviate the above mentioned difficulties, the object of this invention is to provide a setting-out board in -which the foundation portionor core is of metal, preferably aluminum, to which a yieldable facing of paper, fabric or the like is secured, which facing is rendered impervious to the water or adhesives used in the tion, with a hide in set-out position thereon;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through 118 board itself taken on the line 22 of Referring to the drawings the numeral 4 designates the main body or core of the board 3 and is of metal, preferably aluminum, by which I mean aluminum Or aluminumal oy. Applied to this core, on each side thereo is a-facin layer 5 of suitable yielding material, prefera 1y fibrous material suchaspaper, fabric or the like, andto render said facing impervious to water or adhesive used in the setting-outprocess the same is provided with an impervious coating 6 which may be a suitable lacquer, varnish or the like.

The manner of using said, setting-Out boards is, ofcourse, known. A hide 7 is placed board 3 in a moist condition, either with or without adhesive, and is then thereon have dried on the board in set out cond1tion.

' The board above described is rigid and will not buckle or get out of shape, as is the case with the portable setting-out boards heretofore known. F urthermore,-this board will stand more abuse and rough handling than boards ofknown construction and the skins adhere to the board better than to known forms when one skin is between the board and table while the operator is pasting another skin on the opposite side of the board.

I desire it to be understood that this in vention is not to belimited to any particular form or arrangement of parts except insofar as such limitations are included in the claims.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A setting-outboard for leather comprising a sheet metal body portion, a facing of fibrous material attached to said body portion over the working surface thereof, the said fibrous material having a smooth surface and being coated with an impervious coating of varnish or lacquer.

2. Asetting-out board comprising an aluminum plate, a .facing of fibrous material attached thereto over all portions of its working surface, the said fibrous material *having a smooth surface and. being coated with animpervious coating.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

WILLIAM o. JOHNSON.

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